[time-nuts] OT: You know your getting old when...

[Bill Beam]

What is "perfectly acceptable" can be found here
<http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/units.html> and here
<http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html>

I'm old enough to have used †ngstr”m as a measure of length.
But I have never heard of even one  kelvin-coulomb (KC) let
alone 80 of them.

NASA blew a Mars mission because they bungled thier units.

Regards (73 only if using CW)

On 9/6/2007 9:49:38 PM, James R. Gorr (n3toy at yahoo.com) wrote:
> ); SAEximRunCond expanded to false
> Errors-To: time-nuts-bounces+wbeam=gci.net at febo.com RETRY
> 
> 
> It does seem perfectly acceptable when working HF to
> *say* "KCs"
> (I'll be listening around x MHz, plus or
> minus 10 KCs).  Writing it does sort of date a person
> though, which simply shows a level of experience.
> 
> > Re: [time-nuts] OT: You know your getting old
> when...
> 
> Does OT mean "off topic" or "old timer"? :-)
> 
> --- Jack Hudler <jack at hudler.org> wrote:
> 
> > When you find yourself writing 80 KC instead of 80
> > KHz.
> >
> > Jack


Bill Beam
NL7F